Famous quotes containing the words fully and/or hearing:
“But this fully answered Johns purpose toward Betty, for as she did not understand, she highly admired him; and he concluded by again repeating that learning was a fine thing for a man but twas both useless and blameworthy for a woman either to write or read.”
—Sarah Fielding (17101768)
“There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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